Peter Kay wins twice at BAFTA TV Awards 2016
- Peter Kay has won two BAFTAs for Car Share - Best Male Performance and Scripted Comedy
- Michaela Coel won best Female Performance, and Leigh Francis took the Entertainment Performance award
- Have I Got News For You was the winner in the Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme category
The results of the 2016 BAFTA Television Awards have been announced in a ceremony hosted by Graham Norton. In the comedy related categories, Peter Kay, Michaela Coel, Have I Got News For You and Leigh Francis were the winners.
The ceremony also saw top writers Galton & Simpson getting a BAFTA Fellowship, and Sir Lenny Henry awarded for his outstanding contribution to TV.
Below are the results in full, including the speeches by the winners:
BAFTA Fellowship
Esteemed comedy writers Ray Galton and Alan Simpson were given a BAFTA Fellowship. Graham Norton said the duo were "such deserving recipients of BAFTA's highest accolade", with Paul Merton introducing a video featuring highlights of their work, including Hancock's Half Hour and Steptoe & Son.
The duo appeared in a pre-recorded video to accept the honour, with Simpson reading a speech. He said: "We're both very sorry we can't be with you tonight and we must also apologise that we've had this speech written for us - but we can't afford our prices.
"Ray and I met in 1948 in a sanatorium, we were 17 years-old. To this day we complement each other: he helps me up the stairs and I tell him what day it is."
He also joked: "We're so glad that you've chosen this year for this award as, because if you'd waited much longer, you might have missed us. We've so many people to thank for this award, but unfortunately most of them are dead, except for [our agent] Tessa Le Bars who has been with us for 50 years... we must remember to pay her one day!"
He concluded: "For me the most important person to thank is the person without whom none of this would have been possible: Ray Galton. My dear Ray, it's been a pleasure knowing you all these years."
Special Award
Lenny Henry said on receipt of his award: "I'm truly honoured and humbled to be here tonight. I never dreamed that my work would be recognised in this way. So far my career's spanned over four decades and I've had the opportunity to work in everything from comedy to documentaries, childrens' television and drama, which has been fantastic."
Electing not to pay tribute to everyone he has worked with, he thanked in particular his mum; manager Peter Bennett Jones; friends, family, colleagues; and those who have campaigned for diversity in television.
He added: "I believe British television's the best in the world. If it feels like I'm banging on a bit about diversity all the time it's because I truly believe in increasing it so we truly reflect our fantastic nation; so that all those 14 year-olds out there, super-glued to their phones, who hope to work in TV - irrespective of their race, gender, sexuality, class, disability - can realise that ambition as I was able to realise mine."
Female Performance in a Comedy Programme
Michaela Coel (for Chewing Gum) - Winner
Miranda Hart (for Miranda)
Sian Gibson (for Car Share)
Sharon Horgan (for Catastrophe)
On accepting her award, Coel said she would like to pay her respects to Victoria Wood. She also said "If there is anyone out there that looks a bit like me or just feels a little bit out of place, trying to get into performing and all this kind of stuff, I just say you are beautiful, embrace it; you are intelligent, embrace it; you are powerful, embrace it." Here is the video:
Male Performance in a Comedy Programme
Hugh Bonneville (for W1A)
Javone Prince (for The Javone Prince Show)
Peter Kay (for Car Share) - Winner
Toby Jones (for Detectorists)
Peter Kay's speech involved very few words, instead he just shook his head and made faces at the audience. This can be watched in the video below:
Comedy and Comedy Entertainment Programme
Charlie Brooker's Election Wipe
Have I Got News For You - Winner
Ian Hislop, accepting the award on behalf of the HIGNFY team, joked: "I would like to say first of all thank you. I have a wonderful team... Leicester." He also added, in reference to Wolf Hall director Peter Kosminsky defending the BBC against governmental proposals for reform, "I thought I wouldn't do any political stuff this evening, it's already been done although probably at home it was cut for you."
He went on to add: "Reiterating the theme of the evening, I would like to thank the BBC who have allowed Have I Got News For You for a very long time to be very rude about governments of all persuasions - and none, and their oppositions - and indeed about the BBC itself... which is a privilege you are given with public service broadcasting, and not state television."
Scripted Comedy
Car Share - Winner
On accepting the award, producer Gill Isles thanked the team that made the show, and the BBC. Peter Kay added: "Thanks everybody. It's two people in a car, just talking... who would have thought it in this day and age? It's just nice to make people laugh. We've very honoured to make people laugh. Simple as that. It's lovely." Ignoring a cue saying "time up", he then continued to talk about it being an honour to make people laugh.
Entertainment Performance
Graham Norton (for The Graham Norton Show)
Leigh Francis (for Celebrity Juice) - Winner
Romesh Ranganathan (for Asian Provocateur)
Stephen Fry (for QI)
Francis, who won the award for his work as Keith Lemon, appeared uneasy to be accepting the award as himself rather than one of his characters. Adopting a posh accent, he quipped: "I don't quite know what to say. Thanks to my wife for putting up with me being silly, thanks to television for giving me a job, thanks to Fearne Cotton for giving me a job..."
He added: "I feel really posh, I won't reveal my real voice because I'm actually from France."
For more information about the BAFTAs and a list of winners across all genres, visit bafta.org